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samvega: Mr. Day:
Did you by any chance give an outdoor simul when you were in Calgary? I have a vague childhood memory of seeing simul on 8th avenue (a downtown pedestrian street) and asking my parents what was going on . . . The date is about right.

IMlday: <ray>thanks. It was fun.
<samvega> It wasn't me gave the outdoor simul in 1975, maybe GM Shamkovich who had just won the Canadian Open. I did give a simul in Calgary at a bar circa the mid-90's.

IMlday: <uzeromay> Black's 7..Ne7 is inaccurate because the B/h6 is undefended and 9.Qd2 pins the f-pawn. Better is 7..c6 so as to be sure to be able to meet g2-g3 with f4-f3 *keeping the f-file closed*~~the strategic key. There is a thread on this line in the King's Gambit Accepted file or maybe it was kibitzing on Day-Morozevich, 1978 where Black improved on this game.

IMlday: The Vienna 1903 tournament was very entertaining. Otherwise we wouldn't know how solid players like Schlechter or Maroczy would play the White side. :-) For Chigorin, near the end of his career, it was one of his best results ever.

psmith: At first sight, one wonders whether there isn't a better defense than 18...Kd8, which abandons all hope of castling and walks into a nasty pin. However, it seems that other moves are equally disastrous. Here's some analysis with the help of (but not entirely by) Fritz 5.32 (or Old Fritz, as I like to call it).

patzer2: CG I like the pun. My wife and I recently visited a farm in Florida and picked two gallons of Blue Berries. Last year I found some in the wild in a local forest. We enjoy them for both the good taste and our health. See http://www.blueberry.org/health.htm for some of the research on the benefits of this tasty treat.

patzer2: Apparently IM Day has the original patent on 10. g3 in this tricky KGA line. With White seeminly getting the better of the tactics in the more aggressive 10...fxg3?! lines, perhaps Black would do better to go with development via 10...Bg7 = as in A Bangiev vs I Figler, 1986.

kevin86: "All in a Day's work". One of the pitfalls of playing the king's gambit is that often the king's castled position is not exactly safe. The bishop's pawn is gone and g3 is often open for attack. Or,in this case,the opportunity to castle is NOT there. Fancy footwork by the king is essential in these cases.

IMlday: <psm> I don't recall the exact analysis but my KGA was very well prepared in the mid-'70s and the conclusion, that Black was toast in this line (10..fxg3?), seems correct.
<patzer2> Actually 10.g3's 'patent' goes to GM Albin Planinc from a game with Lajos Portisch. (Maybe Ljubljiana, maybe '73?) Somewhere I think I read Portisch's comments on this eventually drawn game which were very illuminating. He wanted the f-file closed with a White pawn at f4 after exchanging. blockading with ..f4-f3 is another method with a similar point. Allowing the open f-file is antipositional and risky imo;
<daqootje> Indeed, Black missed 1..g6! :-)

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